Mr. Michael Hickey:

I have been farming in Tipperary for the past 40 years. I have hedgerows that are 50, 60 or 70 years of age. I fence along outside my ditch and have no trouble with encroaching trees and so forth. I side trim and when a tree gets to a certain height, it branches across. There is no problem for machinery passing underneath or anything like that. That is the kind of situation I would envisage for a scheme-----